The Acadian Diaspora: An Eighteenth-Century History | 
pickThis was a great follow up read for the last book I reviewed here about “le grand dérangement.” It certainly helped fill in more blanks for me regarding family lore. It turns out that Acadians were shipped not only to other British colonies, but to Britain itself with many migrating to find lost family members in other colonies, migrating to France and then migrating out again as part of some ill-fated colonial endeavor…
Schwifty …often to the Caribbean, French Guiana, the Falklands and even internal agricultural colonies in Poitou (mainland France). Most migrated again after these failures reorganized into bigger contingents and shipped off to Louisiana. It seems that the Acadians were one of those diasporas that refused to assimilate wherever they ended up and time and time again sought to reconstitute their lost communities in new settings. 5mo
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